on 5/18/03 3:20 AM, Ken Shmidheiser at kshmidheiser@... wrote:

> Jaguar's Built-In Router
> 
> For years my local DSL provider allowed multiple DHCP server
> connections for a single residence, making it easy to connect several
> computers to the net. Recently they reconfigured their server to
> allow only one address per customer. This left me with three options:
> 
> 1. Buy a hardware router in addition to the brand new high-speed
> switch I had just installed.
> 
> 2. Buy a software router (IPNetRouter, etc.).
> 
> 3. Forgo DSL service on my wife's G3.
> 
> Since No. 3 was obviously not an option, I began exploring the first
> two options. To my great delight, I have discovered that OS X 10.2
> has a solid built-in software router which allows you to share your
> internet connection with several client machines

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Ken:

I used an old ppc 7200 with IPNetRouter and an additional nic. It worked
well til I needed to use Timbuktu. I bought a Linksys router which needed no
configuration to work out of the box. Throughput increase and and latency
decrease were dramatic....

IMHO, Linksys and other good consumer router hardware is cheaper, faster and
less problematical than buying IPNetRouter. I'll bet the hardware option is
still more responsive than osx...

Cheers,

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Michael Evans
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